| Show I I 1 STAKE CONFERENCE III I r Reorganization of the St Joseph Stake I Arizona 1 r i I Saturday Jan 3th at 10 n m our convened rIders Priesthood < meeting < John Henry Smith John W Taj lor ot I I 11 j the council of the Apostles anil EMer Andrew Klmbnll were the Milting brethren and 1Mer Wm V Johnn 0 presided A proposition was made to I dissolve the Stake organization and a f unanlmou ote wa taken 10 Ihat of j jt feet The Apostles then took the presidency I II 1 presi-dency of the Stake and proceeded towards 4 to-wards Its reorganization I I l i i I W nomlnat d for president after which nominations II v Iff i nomina-tions come from tho bodj of the house J i o nfeo J r r kal I i most clllclcnt men of the Stake Mere 1 i djr named This material In the hands of 1i the brethren they proceeded to build t a Stake organization nnd Sunday nf II 10 Ihe conference U I ternon n unnlmol Irnled vole the following J ole were utnlned 1reslili of Stake Andrew Kim II Wm V Johnon Ort t prldent t11 counselor anddiaries II Laylon sec i k t I IIlBh CouncilIienJamln Cluff Joieph ilr Iluben W Vullel IMwIn M O Allreil j liI Ii Curtis I llyrum nl Urlnkerhoff Hicham I I t Honors Layton H Abraham mm II Perkins Uleech Joiiph Both K A Merrill llenjamln r Whimer Thomas Talley alternates to th Illnh Councilors Taley alernnt Wllford W ors Ilrastus H Carpenter WICord jl 1 j lrelone Crockett rrancU Klrby and Jumcn o Stake and Tithing Clerk Ileber 0 If I Lnylon C was Ihe nly t L Patriarch In the Merrl This vviih the h quorums of lh Irleethood remained n I they were It Christopher layton former president j I of the Make was honorably released by the 1lrst 1risldency of the Church and 1 AlWBllra and this action vn sustained i t > I ncton I I by the people who unanimously tic I mlJtij J cepted his successor j t Ir J KMcr Ul > ton with lllshops Samuel Clarldgo nnd John Welker and rldei Henry O Hoyle were made Patriarchs rll I Elizabeth W Liyton wife of ep retiring U re-tiring president was sustained nn pies Ident of the Blake Itellef societies with i rh t 4 Mary h L lianiwm and Adella Curt ao rider Wm J Parker Mas again called Ij to aet an prraldvnt of the Y St M I AIn r I 1 A-In the Stake with Thomas 11 Williams I lam and Ilenjamln r Ieel us counselors mJ f11 coun-selors while Jlldirs Jas U Welker if C A Matthews James Duke nnd Joseph t Jo-seph Lines were railed to act as aids 1 These limp been laboring an mission y Jjj I 1 some time throughout the Stake e for Sister Laura Nuttall with Hmrrrt i Walsh and Luclnda lustaveson wee It rlf I placed In charge of Ihe joung ladles ol ff the Stake asslsttd by Rarah Allred Susie Merrill Llla Curtis and Ada Tlb hf 1 bltts as aids Hebecca Wnrren Mary II A Layton nnd Alta I Leo were placed Iltf In charge of the Primary of the Stake I In consequence of an expected I visit from nider Carl a Maeser er the general I gen-eral superlntendency of Sunday school fJil all changes In that organization lei I left for him and Elder Klmball who dfhhIU rah g U nlso Is a member of the S S Union lil board S A conference will take pIn i I I on tho 12th nnt1th of thl monlh Ii nelde the Rinke Irldoney mdr I Joseph G Allnnl I Ilyrum II Weech ri f I Jame r Oivens w lrr the prospective r l I Stake Sundiy school superintendent It I Ii ulnlned n mmber of tho t tl f Rink honr or eucnton ad Peter 1 Mcllrlde I as chorlstc tt 1 The Apostles and Slake presidency I I hme organized Thatcher ward and I i I nov i t out for the outlying war to 1 f furthe r comlete the local organlzo iyt I 1 tlons i P < nurln our conference hn meel I 1 Ings almost constantly from Saturday I Klder morning until Tuesday night Eoer ll i m 1 I Smith was greatly Iniplrnl his counsel coun-sel 1 to the people while rlder John W Taylor was very prophetic In his ut f 1r Iggeva r Twentyone settlings of young couples 1 H 1 were attended to In the two evenings t set apart for that PUT at the house of nider Chan II Layton ofR rC i i At our publics meetings there was a I good attendance of those not of our t I J f gn tho rl i faith among whom were the district l t tlcal ttornoy lid and li several Tlxoel I others by In the the spirit poll I of union and love tho Holy Ghost be 1 11 r poured out In great abundance he thermometer ranges about fifty A to sixty above zero grain crops are In anl the fnrmer IwautlPui ovr Ihe Ir eels since the bnllul rain and snow torms we have had of late ts Sunday school 1 children from the var Iou v arils assembled with their arents at 9 a m on Sunday the house I i crowded nnd the little tots had prlv Hedge l seeing and hearing the Apostles P W MOODY Stake Clerk j I ft Thatcher Arizona reb 2nd 1SOS |
